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MILK BOTTLING MACHINE. APPLIcA'IoN FILED APB. 1s, 1910.

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G. STRANDT,

MILK BOTTLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR,1B,1910. 1,01 1,264. Patented nec. 12, 1911.

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G. STRANDT. MILK BQTTLING MACHINE 1 APPLIOATION FILED APR 1B 1910 I Y 1,01 1,264. A Patented Devh 12,1911.

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GUSTAV STRANDT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

MILK-BOTTLING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, i911.

Application led April 18, 1910. Serial No. 555,993.

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAv STRANo'r, a citizen of the United States` residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of Visconsin, have invented new and usc-I ful Improvements in Milk-Bottling Machilies, of which the following is a specift cation.

My invention relates to improvements in bottle filling machines, and it pertains more especially, among other things-1st, to the device for automatically conveying the hot tles from a stationary latform to a revoluble conveyer; 2nd, to t e device for raising and filling the bottles while they are being moved forward by the revoluble conveyor; 3rd', to the device for removing the bottles from the revoluble conveyer te the capping' device; and 4th, to the device or communieating motion from the driving mechanism of the machine to the capper, said several Aparts being so constructed and their more ments so timed that each is adapted to coperate with the others in automatically performing the several functions named. whereby a large amountof manual labor heretofore required in doing such work i= dispensed with and the work is much more rapidly done at but slight expense for manual labor.

My invention is further explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figire 1 represents a side view. Fig. 2 is a top view. Fig. 3 is a bottom view. Fig. 4 is an end view,l art in section. Fig. 5 is a detail of the device for adjusting the tank to bottles of different height. Fig. 6 is a side view and Fig. 'l' is an end view of a. portion of the conveyer. Fig. 8 is a detaii in vertical section of one of the bottle sup porting disks and the device for automati cally raising and lowering the same as the bottles are being moved forward by the conveyer. Fig. 9 is a modified form of the device shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 isV a detail of the conveyer showing the modified form of device for communicating motion to the bottle supporting disks as the conveyer is being revolved. Fig. 11 is a bottom view of the conveyer. vice for moving the bottles from the conveyer to the capper, and Fig. 13 is a plan View of the device shown in Fi 12.

Like parts are identified by t e same ref- Fig. 12 is a detail of the de crence numerals throughout the several views.

1 represents a stationary platform or taible, upon which the bottles are manually placed preparatory to being moved forward bv the table supported conveyor. which con veyer comprises an endless chain 2 and the laterallyv projecting arms 2. The chain Q is supported upon three sprocket wheels 3, 4 and 5. motion being communicated from a source of power to such conveyor through the driving pulley 6, shaft 7, miler gears 8 and 9, vertical shaft 10, pinions l1, 1Q and 13, and vertical shaft 14, which vertical shaft 14 is affixed at its upper end to said sprocket wheel 3, whereby as the bottles are placed upon the platform 1, they are carried forward by the radial arms Q'. as indicated in Fig. Q. to the annular series of disksr l5 of the revolublc conveyor. The revoluble conveyer comprises the central member Q3, revoluble platforms 24 -and 24V' and the annular series of U-shapeil arms 16.

Motion is communicated from a moving power to the shaft 17, and from thence to said annular series of disks through the i driving pulley 6, horizontal shaft 7, miter gears '1S and 19. and gear wheel which gear wheel Q2 is mounted upon and communicates motion to said vertical shaft 1T. Said annular series of disks 15 are supported from the side of the gear wheel Q2 through the central member 533, annular revoluble platform Q4 and vertical members 25.- The vertical platform is provided with a series of apertures Q6 for the reception of the vertical members Q5. which have a vertical movement upwardly and downwardly in said apertures as said platform 24 is revolved.

The lower ends of the vertical members 25 ire provided with anti-friction bearings 27, which are adapted to rest upon the annular track 28, which track Q8 is supported from the stationary frame 29 by a series of brackets 30.' The annular track 28 is curved upwardly and downwardly, whereby as the roller bearings 27 traverse the same, the disks 15 and disk supporting members 25 will be caused to gradually rise and fall as they are being revolved by the revoluble conveyer over said stationary track 28, and whereby the bottles which are supported on said disks, will be brought into contact with the filling nozzles 31. The filling nozzles 31 vertical shaft 20. pinion Qi,

are respectively connected with the lower side of the liquid tank 32 and said tank 32 is supported upon and revolved with said shaft 17. The nozzles 31 are of ordinary construction and are adapted, as the bottles are pressed upwardly against them, to open a liquid controlling valve` whereby the bot` ties are simultaneously filled as they are revolved with said tank. When, however, the bottles have been filled, themovement of the machine is so timed that they will pass from the upper plane 33 of the track to the lower plane 34, and in so doing said disks will be caused to descend a distance corresponding with the different planes of said track, whereby the bottles will be brought ont of contact with said nozzles, preparatory to being removed from their supporting disks.

When the bottles have been successively filled and have completed their revolution with the revoluhle, platforms 24, the bottles will be brought into Contact with the stationary angular arms whereby they will be removed from the disks 15 of the annular series to the stationary platform 1 in the space 36. Then two of the bottles have been thus deposited in the Space 36, they are adapted to be carried forward by the reciprocating arms 37, 37 and deposited under the rapper, preparatory to being capped. Motion is conmiunicated from the shaft 7 to the reciprocating arms 37 through the miter gears S and 39, shaft 40, wheel 41, pitman 42, link 43, two armed lever 44, pivotal bolt 45. bracket 46, reciprocating guide bearing 47, bracket 4S, vertical standards 49, 49. arm supporting members 50, 50 and arms 37, 37.

It will he understood that the platform 1 is provided with a longitudinal slot 52 for the reception of thc bracket 48, and said bracket 4S is rigidly afiixed to the. r ciprorating guide bearings 47, which guid earings 47 are slidably supported from the lower side of the platform 1 by the stationary guide bearings as more clearly shown in Fig. 12 of the drawings. The arms 37 are rigidly affixed to the supporting members 50 and said supporting members 50 are revolubly supported from the vertical standards il? and are yieldingly retained in place by the spiral springs 54, one end ofsaid springs being rigidly affixed to the bracket 48. while their opposite ends are rigidly affixed to said arm supporting member 50, whereby said arms are normally retained at nearly right angles to the supporting bracket, but are adapted-to be inclined at an angle to their supporting bracket, and` thrown toward the right, reference. being had to Fig. 2, as they are brought in contact with the bottles. Thus it will be obvious that when two bottles are in place in the space 36 and the bracket 48 is moved toward the left, as previously described, said arms 37 will be inclined toward the right until they pass such bottles, when they will' be thrown` by the recoil of said springs back to their iilmal position at right angles to said bracket, preparatory to being moved in thc opposite direction by the action of the machine, whereby such bottles will be moved forward from the space 36 to and under the cap er, preparatory to being capped. It wil be undeirstood. that the coperati g members of the machine are sov timed t at the bottles will be removed from the revoluble disks to the capping machine, as fast as they are filled, and that when two bottles have been thus filled, they will he displaced and moved from the capping machine by contact of the next two succeeding bottles, as such bottles arc moved forward by the action of said laterally projecting arms 37.

Referring to Fig. 1, the bottle A is supported upon the lower plane 34 of the annulartrack 28 ,and upon the same plane with the statiohary platform or table 1. When, however, the bottles have moved forward toward the left, the supporting bearing 27 passes u the incline to the higher plane 33 of sai( track, whereby the bottles are broug'tin contact with the Stoppers 31, through i hich they are Hlled from the tank 32, as previously described. The series of bottles B, B, (Fig, l), are indicated is supported on the higher plane of the track in contact` with said stoppers. Vhen, however, the machine isbeing used for filling bottles of di ffcrent sizes from those shown, the space between. the tank 32 and the annular series of bottle supporting disks 15 must be increased or diminished to conform to the height of such bottles as are being thus lilled. To accomplish this object, the shaft 17 is slidably connected vf'ith the revoluble conveyer through which it passes, and a vertical movement is communicated to said shaft 17 from the manually operated lever 55 through the horizontal shaft 56, clutch members 57 and 58, gear wheel 60, the vertical series of gear teeth 61, and slidahle collar 62. The slidable collar 62 is provided with a longitudinal aperture for the reception of the lower end of thc shaft 17, which operates therein, and the shaft 17 has vertical bearings 63 which contact with the sides of the inclosing sleeve (i4, whereby said sleeve 62 is prevented from revolving with the shaft 17. Thus it is obvious that by revolving the gear wheel 60 in contact with the vertical series of teeth 61 in one direction, said shaft 17 willibe raised, while by revolving it in the opposite direction, said shaft .will be lowered, whereby said tank 32, together with the nozzles 31 may be adjusted at the desired elevation above the bottle supporting disks to conform to bottles of various heights. i

The clutch members 57 and 58 are locked at the desired point ofV adjustment by the locking bar 65, which locking bar has slidable bearings provided therefor in the clutch member 57 and it is adapted to engage any one of the several recesses 66 of the clutch member 58. The locking bar 65 is slidably supported Vat one end from the lever 55 in an aperture 67 provided therefor and is adapted to be moved forwardly and back- Wardly from its locked to its unlocked position by the angular arm 68, from which it is centrally supported. The angular arm 68 is pivotally supported from the arm 55 y on the pin 69, and motion is communicated from the hand of the operator to said angular arm, and from thence to the locking lever 65 through the link 70, pivotal bolt 71 and lever 72.

The contact bearings of the U-shaped arms 16 are preferably so formed as to lit bottles of several different sizes. Fig. 2 of the drawings shows them formed fo? two different sizes of bottles. l/Vhen the machine is being used for' filling the larger sized bottles, they are adapted to contact with the two opposing bearings 73, 73, which form arcs of the circle described by such larger bottles. lVhen, however, the machine is used for filling smaller bottles, they are adapted to contact with the central bearing 74, which conforms to the arc of the circle described by the smaller bottles. It follows that when the machine is being used for filling smaller bottles, it becomes necessary to move the annular series of arms 16 a partial revolution so as to bring the smaller arc of the circle 74 directly above the bottle' supporting disks, and to accomplish this object, all of said arms 16 are formed integrally with, or rigidly connected to the annular collar 75, and the collar 75, together with saidarms 16 are adapted to be automatically moved orwardly or backwardly as the tank 32 is raised or lowered. Motion is communicated from said tank to said arms, through the pivotal bolt 76, bracket 77, links 78, arm 79, pivotal bolt 80, shaft 81, arm 82, and arm 83, which arm 83 has loosely fitting bearings in the arm 82,

whereby it will be obvious that as said tank 32 is raised for the reception of larger and higher bottles, said arms 16 will be moved forwardly or toward the left, reference being had to Fig. 2, whereby the larger arc of the circle 73 will be brought above the bottle supporting disks 15. When, however, said tank 32 is -lowered to conform to the height of smaller bottles,l said bottle supportin arms 16 will be moved in the opposite direction, .whereby the smaller are of the circle 74 will be brought above the bot.- tle supporting disks 15. l

The shaft 17 is provided with a vertical kev 84, which operates in `the vertical recess 85 of the revoluble platform 24', whereby as said shaft 1T is revolved, motion Will be communicated through said key to said platwhile said shaft 17 is free to be moved upwardly and downwardly through said platform without communicati g motion thereto as may be required to adjust the tank to bottles of different sizes. The bottle supporting disks 15 are yieldingly supported from their autifriction bearings 2T through the slidablc me'ziber 86, disk 87, and spiral spring 8), whereby the bottles supported on said disks 15 are yieldingly retained in contact` with the nozzles 31, as they are being filled. and whereby the liability of becoming broken by contact with a stationary bearing, is avoided. While the bottle supporting disks 15 are shown as supported directly from the antifriction bearings 27 through in 1, 1 and 8, said disks are preferably supported from the anti-friction bear-ings 2T through the lever 90, pivotal shaft 91, bracket 92, lever 93, and Contact bearing 94. which bearing Jl is adapted to contact with the disk 87 and thus communicate motion to the bottle supporting disk l5, as shown in Figs, .5 and 10 of the drawings. By the arrangement shown in said Figs. 9 and 10, it will be understood that by making the lever 9? longer or shorter than the lever 90, the movements of the bottle supporting disks 1f may be increased or diminished without changing the relative position of the upper and lower planes of the track 28.

The so-called capper or device for placing paper caps in the mouths of the bottles as the7 are being filled, forms the subject matter of another pending application and further description herein is therefore unnecessary. Said rapper is however supported from the stationary platform 1 by vertical standards 95,95, and wthe same is connected with a movable member of the machine through the vertical rod 96, and motion is communicated to the vertical rod 96 from the vertical shaft 1() of the machine through the mitcr gears 97 and 98. horizontal shaft 99, miter gears 100 and 161, sh ft 102, crank 165i.` and pivotal bolt 1041` whereby with each .revolution of the crank 103, a vertical reciprocating movement is communicated to the vertical rod 96 and from thence to thc operating mechanism of the capper, as previously described. Y-

lVhilc the capper above described is adapted to place the caps upon two bottles at a time, it will be obvious that cappers muy be used which are adapted to place the caps in a greater or less number of bottles.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-I 1.l In a device of the described class, the combination of a stationary platform, a bottle conveyer supported on said platform the vertically moving member 86,

and adapted to move the bottlestherefrom to a Arevoluble eonveyer, a revoluble conveyer, an annular series of bottle supporting disks carried by said eonveyer, a liquid tank revolubly supported abone said revoluble eonveyer, a plurality of nozzles suspended from said liquid tank, means for communieating motion from a motor driven shaft to said liquid tank and hoth ot' said eonveyers, meansA eonneeted with said revoiuhie eon- \'e ver for sueeessively raising and loweringr the bottle supporting disks and bottles, nherehv the mouths ot' said bottles, when raised, are brought into engagement withl the mouths ot' said nozzles and said bottles are titled' as they are being revolved, bottle suppmting arms, means eonneeted with said tank for automatically adjusting the bottle supporting arms and means tor removing the bottles from the revoluhle eonveyer to said stationary platform after they have been tilted and lowered.

lin a deviee of the deserihed class, the combination ot' a stationary platform, a bottle eon\.e \'er supported on said platform and adapted to move the bottlesl therefrom to a revolubl'` eonveyer, a revolulrle eonveyer. an annular series oti bottle supporting' disks carried b v said eonveyer. a liquid tank revolubly supported above said revo lnhle conveyor, a plurality ot' nozzles snspended from said liquid tank, means `lor eonnnnnieating motion from a motor duren shaft to said liquid tank and both ot said eont'evers. in lans eonneet'ed with said revoluble eonveyer for sueeessively raisingr and lowering the bottle supporting,r disks and bottles. wherebyv the n'lonths of said bottles. when raised. are brought into engagement with the mouths of said nozzles and said bottles are titled as they are beingI revolved, means for removing' the bottles from the revoluhle eonvej'er to said stationar)7 platform after they have been filled and lowereth means for manuaily raising' said tank to eonform to the heights of bottles of d iti'erent sizes. bottle supporting arms and means eonneeted With said tank for automatically adjusting the bottle Supporting arms forwardly and. baekwardly as said tank is raised and lowered, to coliform to the diameter of bottles of different sizes.

In a. device of the described class, the combination of a stationary platform, a bottle eonveyer supported on said platform and adapted to more the bottles therefrom to a revoluble eonveyer, a revoluble conrever, an annular series of bottle supportingl disks carried by said eonveyer, a liquid tank revolubly supported above said revolnble conve-yer, a plurality ot' nozzles suspended from said liquid tank, means for eommunieating' motion from a motor driven shaft to said liquid tank and both of said,

eonveyers, a stationary track formed on two ditt'erent horizontal planes connected together by an intermetfliate inclined plane, a series ot' vertically moving members provided at their lower ends with roller boarings operating;r on said track and eonneizted at their upper ends with said bottle supporting disks. for sueeessively raising and towel ing said bottle supporting disks and bottles, wherebyv the months of said bottles, when raised, a re brought into engagement with the mouths ol' said nozzles and said bottles are filled as they are being revolved. means for removing the bottles ,from the revoluble eonveyer to said Stationaryv platform at'ter they ha te been tilted and lowered, 1n aus for man# uall'v raising said tank to eont'orm to the heights' ot hotties ot' ditl'erent sizes, bottle` supporting,r arms and tneans eonneeted with said tank for automatieatly adjusting the bottle supporting arms forwardlyv and bark- \vardl \v as said tank is raised and lowered, to contorni to the diameter ot bottles of different` sizes.

ln testimonyT whereof l altix inv signature in the presenee of two witnesses.

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